Posted on 08/06/2018 3:31:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
When I first heard reports and saw Facebook posts calling for violence, it seemed a sensational fringe suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, but recent polls are showing that more and more leftists are seeing civil war as the only answer to save America. Trump is delivering on his promises to reverse President Obamas leftist transformation, and the left hates him for it. Trumps recent appointment of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and his threat to close down government if he doesnt get funding for his border wall has just further stirred up the lefts hornets nest!
Demonstrations no longer seem to be enough. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her pro-Trump colleagues were thrown out by the owner of the Red Hen Restaurant in Virginia mid-meal. Florida's Attorney General Pam Bondi was followed and harassed by a leftist mob as she and her husband left a movie theater after watching the Mister Rogers documentary stressing goodness and love for ones neighbor. Antifa continues to call for violence against the right.
Outspoken Rep. Maxine Waters, chieftain of the Trump impeachment brigade, called for attacks on the Trump administration: "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them theyre not welcome anymore, anywhere."
A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey found that many voters fear that political violence is coming from opponents of the president. Nearly one-in-three think a civil war is next. Thirty-one percent (31%) of likely U.S. voters say its likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years, with 11% saying its Very Likely. Sure, 59% consider a second civil war unlikely, but it doesnt take many to create strategic attacks. More realistically, 59% of all voters are concerned that those opposed to President Trumps policies will resort to violence, with 33% being Very Concerned.
Thomas W. Chittum warns in Civil War II: To understand the future, study the past. Throughout world history, all multi-ethnic empires have broken up, and almost always in cataclysmic violence. Therefore, the question is not if the multi-ethnic American Empire will shatter, but when and under what circumstances.
America has had a way of proving academics wrong. Despite strong disapproval by many conservatives, there was no civil war during President Obamas terms in office, and there will be no civil war now.
Certainly, there is a sharp divide in our country, and violence has broken out in small and tragic ways. Its time for responsible citizens to stand for the right of dissent and against the use of violence as a way of handling that dissent.
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis is noted for advising that the answer to hate speech is not silence, but more speech. He wrote in his dissent in Gilbert v. Minnesota in 1920: Full and free exercise of this right by the citizen is ordinarily also his duty; for its exercise is more important to the nation than it is to himself. Like the course of the heavenly bodies, harmony in national life is a resultant of the struggle between contending forces. In frank expression of conflicting opinion lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action; and in suppression lies ordinarily the greatest peril.
Dont push. Dont demean. Dont assault. If you support President Trump contribute, vote in November, and campaign for the red wave that he will need to make progress on his campaign promises. If you are frustrated with his administration, do the same for the blue wave needed to make a change in Washington.
It takes courage and conviction of ones democratic principles to stand against those in your own party who move beyond dissent to violence. Never forget to protect the rights of your opponents and to confront any on your side who promote violence. America matters; you matter. Make a difference for civility.
But wait! The left is anti-gun! How can they shoot at us?
Seriously, the left will lose in overwhelming numbers if they're really dumb enough to start the shooting war. There are few things I'll guarantee in this life, this is one of them.
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